Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot (English) Paperback Book

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Kalevala

by Elias Lonnrot, Horatio Clare

Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland: 'the land of heroes'. Ambition, lust, romance, birth and death can all be found within its pages, as well as the sampo, a mysterious talisman that brings great happiness to its possessor and over which great battles will be fought.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HORATIO CLARE

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Discover the great Finnish epic on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country of Finland.Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland- 'the land of heroes'. Here you'll find the cultural essence of a young country but an old land, the stories, songs and poems that recount the mythical adventures of humankind. Ambition, lust, romance, birth and death can all be found within its pages, as well as the sampo, a mysterious talisman that brings great happiness to its possessor and over which great battles will be fought.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HORATIO CLARE

Author Biography

Elias L nnrot was a Finnish country doctor born in 1802. During twenty years spent working in a remote part of eastern Finland, L nnrot collected fragments of folk tales and poetry which he believed formed a continuous epic. He undertook eleven field trips on a quest to gather as much material as he could, partly funded by the Finnish Literary Society, of which he was a founding member. The result was the Kalevala, first published in 1835. L nnrot continued to collect material, eventually bringing out the version we know today in 1849. It consists of 22,795 verses, divided into fifty songs. L nnrot most likely merged similar variants and stitched fragments together with his own words.L nnrot became a professor of Finnish language and literature at the University of Helsinki in 1853. His work paved the way for the development of modern Finnish literature and promoted Finnish as the national language over Swedish. From 1866 he worked on the fourteen-year-long task of compiling the first Finnish-Swedish dictionary which contained over 200,000 entries. Many of the translations were coined by L nnrot himself. He died in 1884.

Review

One of the great mythic poems of Europe * New York Times *
I was immensely attracted by something in the air of the Kalevala -- Tolkien to W.H. Auden in 1955
Did so much to bolster early Finnish nationalism on the road to independence * Guardian *
The Kalevala , the 19th-century folk epic that crystallised national resistance to Russian rule, was compiled by Elias Lonnrot from ancient runes sung from memory in the eastern forests of Karelia. The Kalevala inspired not only Sibelius but JRR Tolkien, whose Middle Earth and elfin tongue tapped Finnish myths and language * Guardian *

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Discover the great Finnish epic on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country of Finland.

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One of the great mythic poems of Europe

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"The Kalevala, the 19th-century folk epic that crystallised national resistance to Russian rule, was compiled by Elias Lonnrot from ancient runes sung from memory in the eastern forests of Karelia. The Kalevala inspired not only Sibelius but JRR Tolkien, whose Middle Earth and elfin tongue tapped Finnish myths and language." -- Guardian

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Discover the great Finnish epic on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country of Finland.

Details ISBN1784873047 Author Horatio Clare Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2017 ISBN-10 1784873047 ISBN-13 9781784873042 Format Paperback Publication Date 2017-11-30 Media Book Imprint Vintage Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 894.54112 Pages 704 Series Vintage Classics Language English UK Release Date 2017-11-30 AU Release Date 2017-11-30 NZ Release Date 2017-11-30 Narrator Matthew Beard Illustrator Helen Smith Birth 1927 Death 1990 Affiliation Lecturer, University of Fort Hare Position Professor Qualifications J.D. Alternative 9781473549111 Audience General

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  • Condition: Brand New
  • ISBN-13: 9781784873042
  • Type: NA
  • Publication Name: NA
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Kalevala
  • Item Height: 198mm
  • Author: Elias Lonnrot
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Topic: Poetry
  • Item Width: 129mm
  • Item Weight: 506g
  • Number of Pages: 704 Pages

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